Kelley Armstrong Quotes

People are always saying, 'You use irony,' and it's like, actually, we don't use irony: we use wit and playfulness and irreverence.

What happened to your face?" Harriet asked. "It was a misunderstanding," Daniel said smoothly, wondering how long it might take for his bruises to heal. He did not think he was particularly vain, but the questions were growing tiresome. "A misunderstanding?" Elizabeth echoed. "With an anvil?" "Oh, stop," Harriet admonished her. "I think he looks very dashing." "As if he dashed into an anvil." "Pay no attention," Harriet said to him. "She lacks imagination.

I'm truly amazed at you, Garion," Polgara said. "I didn't think you had the faintest idea of how to speak a civilized language." "Thank you," he said, "I think.

You should be thankful that dark colors suit you. Not everyone wears black well." "Why, Lady Olivia, is that a compliment?" "Not so much as a compliment to you as an insult to everyone else," she assured him. "Thanks heaven for that. I don't think I would know how to conduct myself in a world in which you offered compliments.

You need to know where to go,' Sanya said. 'Yes,' 'And you are going to consult four large pizzas for guidance.' 'Yes,' I said. ...'There is, I think, humour here which does not translate well from English into sanity.' 'That's pretty rich coming from the agnostic Knight of the Cross with a holy Sword who takes his orders from an archangel.' I said. - Harry Dresden & Sanya, Changes, Jim Butcher

There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature.

But if you don't watch me, I will try and sneak in some humor. I see humor everywhere in life around me.

Sometimes you say things with a smile with the precise intention of making it clear that you are not being serious, and are only kidding. If I salute a friend with a smile and say, 'How are you, you old scoundrel!' clearly I don't really mean he's a scoundrel.

I say things I get away with, and it becomes a joke.

I love to engage in repartee with people who are stupider than I am.

I don't mean to be funny.

Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.

When I'm an audience member I do not want to go and see something that I already know, I want to see something that I don't know. I want to be surprised and stimulated to think about something. I want the magic. I want to be in a situation of uncertainty; that's what excites me.

All genuinely intellectual work is humorous.

Even when I was in high school and the Navy, I was the guy who could rip somebody, and they'd laugh at it.

I was the class innuendist.

I can be very dry and sarcastic.

What I don't like is snark for snark's sake. If you are going to make fun of me, at least be witty while doing it.

Even people that I agree with can do something that would be a target for a bit of humor.

I'm funny at home too, but not deliberately. My wife is usually laughing at me rather than with me.

The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.

Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature.

Never say a humorous thing to a man who does not possess humor. He will always use it in evidence against you.

Personally, I just tease people a lot.

My humor is my creativity, and my skepticism is a gift.